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OK, so Part 2 today, part 3 Tuesday.
Today, pictures from valued commenter J R in WV.
These are the first set of pictures taken after we set sail on board the National Geographic Sea Bird in Magdelina Bay on the west coast of Baja California Sud. This bay and channel between the mainland of Baja and the barrier islands is famous for the Gray Whales who visit this quiet water every winter to breed and give birth. The mother whales and their babies are curious and friendly, and will come right up to small boats like the zodiacs we used. You can pet them, many of us kissed the baby whales. The next set will have more closeups of the whales, this trip wasn’t as intimate as the next trip.Barrier
Barrier Island between the channel where the Sea Bird is moored and the Pacific Ocean
Taken on 2018-03-06
Magdelena Bay on the west coast of Baja California Sur.
f/6.3 at 1/2000 sec and 400mm with a Panasonic Lumix FZ1000
The First Big Gray Whale near our Zodiac
Taken on 2018-03-06
Magdelana Bay on the west coast of Baja Calilfornia Sur. The whale is probably only 30 feet away!
f/4.0 for 1/1000 sec at 25mm with a Lumix FZ1000
Gray Whale between our Zodiacs beginning to spout
Taken on 2018-03-06
Magdelana Bay on the west coast of Baja California Sur.
f/3.2 for 1/3200 sec. with 25mm lens Lumix FZ1000
Mother and Child Reunion #1
Taken on 2018-03-06
Still in Magdelana Bay on the west coast of Baja Callifornia.
f/4.5 for 1/2000 sec. and 25mm lens with a Panasonic Lumix FZ1000There were killer sunsets most days, this was the first one, which was taken while walking as a group over to the other side of the yacht basin for dinner the first night. The food was great, there was good live music.
Two Gray Whales, a mother and her child, quite near our Zodiac
Big Spout
Taken on 2018-03-06
The west coast of Baja California Sur.
f/5.0 for 1/1600 sec. at 26mm with Lumix FZ1000
Big Mother, right by the Zodiac
Taken on 2018-03-06
Magdelana Bay on the west coast of Baja California…
f/2.8 for 1/3200 sec at 25mm with the Lumix FZ1000
Thank you so much J R in WV, do send us more when you can.
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A. J.
Love you guys. This site keeps me sane… Or saner.
Hope you all are good.
Cermet
Good morning, all you jackals!
satby
@A. J.: @Cermet: Good morning ?!
JW, this looks pretty close to the whales, and you got even closer?!?
Damn, now I want to kiss a baby whale too.
OzarkHillbilly
That first pic is a wall hanger. Love the colors, the textures, the composition, just beautiful.
Mary G
@OzarkHillbilly: I agree, it is a keeper. Thanks for sharing these, JR.
JPL
J.R, Great pictures!
cosima
Amazing adventure. Thanks for sharing your beautiful photos.
Waratah
Terrific photos, really close to the whales.
rikyrah
Those were beautiful ?
arrieve
@OzarkHillbilly: I agree. That’s just dazzling.
debbie
Stupid question: Is that barrier island made of sand?
MomSense
Wonderful photos.
Frankensteinbeck
Five months of my publisher ignoring me. What a mess. It turned out that the company is having problems, but mostly I was trying to communicate with someone who’d been fired. But yesterday I got the editing notes. They were actually really good, which is a relief because previous books were edited so badly people complained. I was humiliated when I looked through them myself. The notes are sent back. I feel like I have a job again. What. A. Relief.
lurker dean
the light in that first pic is perfect, great pic!
J R in WV
@lurker dean: Thanks! That first photo in today’s set has a wonderful texture, I think because I started with the RAW image.
If you click on any of the photos you get a larger version.
So glad you all enjoy them!
Paul Waterhouse
for the past 3 days, moving around this site on firefox has been a total pain in the ass. the only way to avoid getting caught in an irritating loop is to transfer to safari. fix the fucking thing